The Great Mouse Detective (1986)
Directed by Burny Mattinson
When the diabolical Professor Ratigan kidnaps London's master toymaker, the brilliant master of disguise Basil of Baker Street and his trusted sidekick Dawson try to elude the ultimate trap and foil the perfect crime.
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What critics compared The Great Mouse Detective to
If I could, I'd look back a few years to compare The Great Mouse Detective to another mouse cartoon from the 1980s; Don Bluth's The Secret of NIMH .
Much like The Great Mouse Detective heralded the imminent arrival of the Disney Renaissance…
So it was that, after a fair amount of executive meddling, from removing some of the incidental gags that did nothing for the plot, to changing the title to the more dynamic if also more generic The Great Mouse Detective , the project was approved, with Clements and Musker making their directorial debuts, aided by storyman and animator Dave Michener (who, having worked on "Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day" , was the most senior member of the directorial team) and storyman Burny Mattinson, the only one of the four who'd ever directed anything, the 1983 short "Mickey's Christmas Carol" .
At least until, predictably, circumstances force him to work with Judy on a case that at times resembles Lethal Weapon while other times it has shades of The Great Mouse Detective.
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The directors are Ron Clements and John Musker (who directorial collaboration began 30 years ago with "The Great Mouse Detective"), with Don Hall and Chris Williams credited as co-directors.
Directors John Musker and Ron Clements (the directors behind films like Aladdin, Hercules, and The Great Mouse Detective) have really taken their work to the next level on Moana, and have taken their love of Polynesian culture and done something awesome with it, taking a five-year journey to travel, research, and get the input and participation of the people they want to represent.
John Musker and Ron Clements previously directed two of the finest ("The Little Mermaid" and "Aladdin") and two of the least memorable ("Hercules" and "The Great Mouse Detective") Disney animated features.
Writer-directors Ron Clements and John Musker, who ushered in Disney�s great new era ("The Great Mouse Detective," "The Little Mermaid" and "Aladdin"), are now presiding over its downfall.
They were now three-for-three: The Great Mouse Detective (for which they served as half of four total directors) had reversed the dire slump after The Black Cauldron , paving the way to their next project, The Little Mermaid , which was instantly recognised as the triumphant return of Disney animation to its glorious heights, for the first time in two decades or more.